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[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay1390:
I'm gonna second the suggestion for Serendipity 6.3, although I'll also mention that just because someone gets good battery life on a ROM doesn't mean you will. Everyone uses their phone differently. What may be moderate use to one person may be heavy usage to another and light usage to another. So I state above all else, your mileage

WILL

vary!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjballar41:
i understand about the milage i started using continuum im liking it so far. ill give the others a try after a week or so maybe.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lord sargent:
Just flashed to serendipity 6.3 this morning, i would recommend it for sure. I browse the web for 12 or so hours at a time and my battery life has been greatly extended compared to the leaked stock froyo. Everything loads much faster as well
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheesejam:
I have CM7 and love the lockscreen gestures. However, I would like a different lockscreen wallpaper than homescreen wallpaper. How could I change the lockscreen wallpaper, while keeping the CM7 lockscreen gestures? Thanks!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bazinga:
bump

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[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KrisPeezy:
I use widget locker pro, it's a pretty sweet app. You can choose from all the diff types of lockscreens, add custom sliders, add widgets/shortcuts to the lockscreen, gestures, wake the screen with any hardware button. And most importantly for you, change the wallpaper of the lockscreen.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brando56894:
Thats what I use too. AFAIK the lockscreen wallpaper is the same as your desktop wallpaper.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Westibone:
Hi Guys, Idon't post too often as you can see, but I have had a great time rooting my Evo and learning from all the awesome members here. I do my research, and until now I have not run across a problem I could not fix on my own.

I am running CM7 nightly 26, and out of nowhere today, my phone rebooted and proceeded to get stuck in a boot loop. I am not surprised by that kind of thing at this point, but for the first time ever, I was not able to boot into recovery. If I select that option from the boot loader, I just get the white Evo 4G screen and it proceeds to boot loop.

Ok, I thought, maybe my recovery was corrupted somehow, so I pull the SD card and put Amon Ra 2.3 in the root directory and named it PC36IMG.zip and flashed it. No good. I still can't get into recovery.

I also tried downloading the stock (rooted) sprint ROM, putting on the root of my SD card and naming it PC36IMG.zip. After the bootloader detects it and the progress bar finishes, it says "Parsing PC36IMG.zip", and then it just takes me back to the bootloader main menu without an option to flash anything.

Also, is there a way to get S-ON back (with my only access being to the bootloader) in the event that I have to take it in? The alternative would be to drown it or smash it (as a last resort)

Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance for any help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Many of us are racking our brains trying to figure out what is causing this situation. Everyone who are experiencing this were using CM7, like you, and it happened to of nowhere and for no known reason. I don't think anyone has figured out a workaround, but I could be wrong. I haven't ready through the forums today regarding this issue. Just know that you are not alone, my friend....:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Westibone:
Well, it doesn't look too hopeful from what I have seen so far, but thanks for the support. It's good to know that I am not alone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
If you can still access the bootloader, you should still be able to run an RUU through fastboot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thanamesjames:
It happened to me, I was one of the first on the forum it happened to, in January. Was never able to fix it, you could spend a loonnngggg time, and get no results. If you search for my threads you can see the ones I started about the subject.

Long story short, I was never able to fix the problem or get S-On. However by doing a battery pull while flashing a rom with a different radio, during the radio installation, I bricked my phone to the point that it wouldn't even turn on. So thats basically your only way out that I know of. You'll have to perform the battery pull upwards 20 times probably before you get the phone to fully brick.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mizzos4:
I'm on CM7 nightlies. What are the HW specs of those having these problems? I thought it was due to CWM but there have been some on RA experiencing this too. Just wondering if this is more specific to the newer HW builds/hboots or occurs with all phones.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Westibone:
My Evo is hardware version 003 for what it's worth.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
When you select recovery, what happens?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gandroid:
I had same issue in Jan after flashing miui.

tried the suggestions on this thread..but nothing worked:

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/267018-struck-boot-loop.html

Had to replace my phone...that seems to be the only way out of this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayharper08:
This is the reason I have stayed away from CM for so long. I keep seeing these horror stories about bootlooping, etc. I know its awesome when its running, but when it comes to the point where bricking your phone on purpose is a good thing, something is wrong :eek: For those that it has happened to above, did you get your new one and go back to CM (or any other AOSP rom)?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Westibone:
When I select recovery, it just goes back to the white Evo 4G screen and proceeds to boot loop. Over and over again :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
My God, another one. It's weird these seem to be happening more and more...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19699565/3.70 RUU Zip.zip Rename it to PC36IMg. Its 3.70 ruu, flash it in the bootloader, then re-root.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougjamal:
Hopefully, your RUU will work. Others who have attempted to this this very thing still couldn't make it work. Me, k2buckley and others have yet to figure it out and believe me, we've tried everything within our experience range. A solution will be found, I have no doubt about that, but "when" is the question that I cannot answer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Don't know why this keeps happening dude. Just like all the other ones. I promise (unfortunately) that this guy isn't going to be able to recovery. Same as the others. THe RUU won't work, neither will the PC36IMG. I don't know why. THey may appear to complete successfully, but the result will still be hanging at the splash screen. That is my prediction, let's see his results. I hope I'm wrong, truly, I do.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I hope you are too, but I have saved 1 person with the RUU, so I can hope to save more, but yea, I don't know what's causing this pandemic cuz I've been flashing the latest nightlies, reflashing my kernel, with no problems...I hope it works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boobaroo:
Same Here

Wow, what a coincidence, this just happend to me last night. I had just finished installing and flashing the new, SavagedZen(MOD)-RC1-Evo4G, Rom. Went to bed and sometime during the night the phone got stuck on restarting on the EVO white screen and turning off and on continusly. I have tried all the efforts of putting the stock ROM back on and everything else mentioned in this thread, but to no avail. Like you said, cant get into recovery or anything, just keeps looping through startin and stopping.

With all that is said so far on this thread, it looks like a new phone is the only way to fix this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
By some awkward chance, have you tried a full wipe, and then flash a sense rom?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
There was actually one guy that I was able to help recover. (it was short lived though). After trying like 10 different RUU's, one of them had finally took. The phone booted up into a stock sense rom, and the kid was stoked. About 10 minutes after he was up again, his phone rebooted again. Stuck at the splash screen again (this was stock, and he still had s off, because we couldn't ever turn it on). I had him try flashing a recovery again, and low and behold it worked, and he flashed a sense rom. Things seemed fine, and I didn't hear back from him. A few days later, he PM'd be back, saying that it randomly rebooted again, and was stuck at the same splash screen loops. He ended up exchanging his phone. He was the ONLY one, out of quite a few that I've tried to assist through this problem, that was actually able to boot the phone again. Unfortunately, it wasn't stable for him, and then it ended up doing the same thing. Somehow, some way, I believe that the damage was already done, and he just got lucky to be able to squeeze a few extra days out of his Evo, but it was still a short lived recovery.

It's a very perplexing phenomenon that's going on here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I hope my case doesn't come back to haunt me. Seems like we got a T Virus of phone crashings going around...those already along their way [like you and I] are imune...the newer ones get sucked in. we haz to fix this soon-ishly.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcusva79:
This is were I found another victim. But the did get the bootloops to stop.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
I'm sorry if I missed it, but I read all 54 posts in that thread, and saw no fix. He stopped the bootloops, but was still hanging at the splash screen. They never got it to boot, then the thread just died. What was the fix you saw? That thread just reminded me of this one, a lot of suggestions, confusion, and failure.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcusva79:
That was pretty much the thread i saw. Sorry brotha....i know it got rid of the bootloops but that was it. I will see if i can find more tomorrow.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redneck Trash:
I used Unrevoked 3 and everything is good here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Westibone:
Yep, fortunately they had some in the store, and I was able to get it the same day I brought it in. They didn't ask me a single question beyond what the problem was. I told them, "My phone is toast...".

I knew they wouldn't be able to fix mine, but since S-On was there, I did not worry. The only thing I got briefly worried about was that I had some rooting/ROM related files in the download folder on my SD card, but I doubt they even noticed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
Thanks for the fastboot ideas. Was busy rooting my replacement phone last night so I didn't get to try them, but I will tonight.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
A) They won't go through your memory card.

B) Those files don't mean anything. You could say your friend was using your phone to transfer files, for example. Like you said, S-ON means you're fine.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowetax:
take it from someone that knows ...

after all, F(red) helped D.H. root :)

i certainly hope you flashed Myn's RLS 5 on his EVO !

i was hoping to see if fastboot recovery would work/help in your circumstances...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NasTraDooMis:
Do you mean how we originally rooted our Evo ? I used unrevoked 3.2 back in October. Why would a problem as such that we are currently experiencing just now all the sudden start causing major issues if indeed it is related to unrevoked ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NasTraDooMis:
Wow, that is scary. Thats scarier than Charlie Sheen on crack !
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
So reading a bit more about fastboot commands, it seems like all I can really do from here is manipulate the partitions. Here's my questions: Is it possible to take a bootloader image with S-On and flash it to my phone?

In the alternative, does anyone know how the S-On zip works? Would it be possible to repackage it in a way that I could use?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] effluent:
Well, after reading through this thread it's nice to know that at least i'm on .76Eng bootloader with S off...if I ever have this problem.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidious:
Repartitioning?

I honestly think that somehow, the recovery partition and/or the entire partition table is getting messed up somehow. That's what it seems like to me from reading all of the info from all the sources (all threads and posts of the issue occurring). I wonder, is there anyway to manually fix the partition table? For instance, could the partition table be manually repartitioned for these EVOs? Could it be repartitioned using something similar to this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=534714

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806491

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806321

What ya'll think? I mean, at this point, could it really hurt to try?

EDIT: I'm just saying with the above references, maybe the ideas/commands used in some of these hacks could be somehow applied to the paritioning/repartitioning of the internal drive for the EVO to test if that would fix the issue. I seriously think the partitions are messed up somehow and that maybe repartitioning them would solve the problem. At this point, you've tried everything, why not go a little further? Just my 2 cents ;)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
Except I tried this and it doesn't work, you don't get S-On
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowetax:
i don't have the answers to your questions,

but as you replaced your 'broken' phone,

we still don't know if fastboot erase recovery and then fastboot flash recovery would work/help, do we ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
I didn't replace it, I just switched to a backup. I'm still screwing around with the evo and will try those when I get home. My question was what else can I flash? My understanding is that under fastboot you just flash an image. As of now the only thing that works at all is a the bootloader, so why wouldn't a flash of an S-On image work?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jander6442:
just tried the fastboot recovery recovery.img= remote access not allowed. I even tried to flash just a stock recovery img... no go. Something is going on, cause if anyone read my post in regards to all this I always wiped and cleared thus while changing a notification ringtone while everything was working fine before & for no reason entered a bootloop. Beware, something is aloof.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RileyGrant:
In my opinion, when whatevers happening is happening, it destroys the recovery, and in order to flash any sort of rom, even through the bootloader, requires a working recovery. So with a corrupted nand, you have no recovery and no way to flash anything, even a recovery. If you use fastboot to reformat the recovery partition, then flash the stock or a custom recovery, you then should be able to reformat your entire nand, and then flash a new rom. In theory it sounds good, the only way we can tell though is if someone tests...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
The RUU you ran multiple times does have an image of a bootloader, with S On. You already tried it. The flash didn't take, your bootloader seems to be S off for good bro. If it was going to go S.on, it would've when you ran RUU, when you were on the eng bootloader. And BTW, being on the Eng bootloader did indeed get S on for the OP, after running an RUU. It's not.working for you though, possibly because you ran unrevoked forever. As far as reworking the unrevoked s on tool to be able to work from flashing at the bootloader, or with fastboot, I doubt. I think its scripted to just run in recovery, and I've never seen mention of it to be able to flash if any other way. Maybe someone could figure it out though, who knows.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
I agree, about a messed up recovery partition. It makes sense, and has been my theory all along.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Just an update: I still haven't found a solution to it, and can't do much now with no evo at hand.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowetax:
did you try to fastboot erase recovery first ?

and if so, did you get an access not allowed message ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jander6442:
remote access denied
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I might have missed it in these threads, but has anyone tried to flash the unrevoked S always on tool?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I believe it was tried, and proved unsuccessful.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowetax:
put good copy of amon_ra recovery.img in your adb tools folder on pc

boot to bootloader

fastboot is highlighted

then plug in and fastboot usb is highlighted

open a command prompt where adb tools are (so fastboot.exe is available)

fastboot devices (enter) should show HT device

fastboot erase recovery (enter)

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (enter)

unplug and power down

down volume + power buttons to power on and see if can get to recovery

after you plugged in, was fastboot usb highlighted ?

if so, in command prompt window, you were in directory where fastboot.exe is, right?

and no luck with fastboot devices (enter) ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Unless someone knows how to make the unrevoked S on tool to be flashable as a PC36IMG, at the bootloader, then it has no use at the moment, because it needs to be flashed in recovery, and unfortunately, none of these guys can get to recovery. The goal is to either get S on so they can go for service, or to successfully get a recovery flashed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Have any tried doing it through terminal emulator? I went I rooted my friend's hero over xbox live, he couldn't flash the recovery through the bootloader, but it worked through the emulator; just an idea.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidious:
So, does anyone know, are there any commands that can be implemented in fastboot to repartition a disk similar to the 'parted' command used in adb? Any 'badass' devs out there know of the highly technical way to repartition the internal disk?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebeast614:
Idk why this has become such a problem all of a sudden...I was on my EVO for 2 hrs before I got it fixed...I flashed a recovery.img via fastboot and then wiped all data via bootloader...then I was able to restore an older nandroid and just get a couple missing apps back...I hadn't had a problem all day after flashing a new kernel until like 11pm at night...weird stuff

Sent from my nightly EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
So to be clear, you had this exact problem and fixed it? You're the first person reporting that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
Did you even read the thread here? Normally, what you did to fix yours, should work. It doesn't in these situations. It would be nice though, if it was as simple as reflashing a recovery and a data wipe. It's been tried here though, with no success.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
How would one go about doing this? Are you talking about via fastboot commands?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
No, through the terminal emulator app. It should come with your rom, if not, download it from the market, for free.

The commands would be

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/xxxx/xxx.img

-su [lower case] which will give you super user permission

-the first set of xxx's is your directory [easiest if on root of sdcard]

-the last set of xxx's in the xxx.img is the name of your recovery

Then hit enter after that, and it should say writing...blah blah, then done. You can type in reboot after to reboot.

ex:

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/amon_ra.img

[enter]

[writes data]

reboot
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
Except my phone won't boot, which is the whole problem
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
He would be able to need to boot up though, for that to work, right? He can't get past splash screen..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Oy...I misread one of the posts...my bad. And you already tried the fastboot commands?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lowetax:
i say, leave your place of work - or wherever you are -

and go home and give the fastboot (erase recovery and then flash recovery) routine a try!

one step at a time

hopefully you can see the device and then flash the recovery, via fastboot,

and then after power down, power up into recovery
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebeast614:
Yes it fixed it for me...didn't have to take it to sprint and get a new one all I did was try flashing my recovery and I was still having the same problem...then for some reason after I wiped my data I had recovery access after reboot and it was fixed

Sent from my nightly EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
What initially caused your problem? None of these guys have been able to get recovery to successfully flash, I'm not sure if you had the exact same problem...if you did, you're the first I've seen reporting it was fixed. Normally a situation like this is easily and effortlessly cleared up by reflashing the recovery, or by running an RUU or PC36IMG. But none of the normal, tried and true methods are working for these guys. I'm waiting for someone to try lowetax's suggestion, and see if that works. If even his suggestion fails, I think all options have been exhausted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
I do feel we've exhausted all the options and probably came up with a few...and without an Evo I can't do any testing, so I'm as useless as the next right now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Not true. I had this problem a few weeks ago, flashed the unrevoked s always on, then recovery, and re-rooted to get out of it.

Went back to CM, same problem, then I had to run the RUU and format my SD Card to get out of it.

I haven't seen to many people mention the s always on tool, though, and one of the problems is that they can't past s-off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebeast614:
Well it was late and I can't remember everything...but the morning before it happened I had a problem opening my phone apk even after rebooting and the only thing I did before I went to bed was flash Tiamat kernel 3.3.2...so I went into my recovery and flashed 3.3.0 and it fixed my phone apk and everything was fine until about 11pm...I can't remember what I was doing but I found that some of my apps that had been working previously had stopped working or started FCing...so I figured I'd reboot the phone and see if that fixed it but when I reboot my phone I looked down on the floor where I set it and it was still on the splash screen...then I pulled the battery and powered it on normally and it was stuck in a bootloop....I got into the bootloader and tried going into CMW but all I got was a blank black screen...so then I plugged in the USB and went into fastboot mode to flash my recovery again, to no avail...after repeatedly trying to flash different recoveries and searching on xda for a solution I just said 'what the heck' and wiped my data in the bootloader...it wiped and I rebooted into the bootloader and once I selected recovery I was able to access all my folders and files on my SD card and I restored a nandroid backup I made...I was on nightly 14 with matted blues theme (if it matters) and I have the .76 eng bootloader...Idk why it worked for me but hope it helps find a solution

Sent from my nightly EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrashL:
Well, if you flashed S-On then you were able to get to recovery, which means you don't have this particular issue.